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CoolUsername:
No way you're defending the chops bro

CoolUsername:
Body pillow for $200 is crazy when I can go on Temu and order an Albedo dakimakura for less than 40,000 naira

ValeeLove:
Ehen. If they can debut Jade straight to the main roster then you're not out of place to demand same.

samistry:
You really do think about her every day😏.
WWE saw jade as a maineventer based on her presentation on AEW.
This guy na NXT/ midcard level.
Person wey no make any impact as bullet club leader. Gabe kidd, his lieutenant was outshining him.

ValeeLove:
midcard ba? Jade doesn't even belong in the business.

ValeeLove:
Who watches NXT here? Was it that bad?

ValeeLove:
Reports coming in says that the 'D' 'O' double 'G' has been released. DX is back to 2 I guess.

ValeeLove:
Reports coming in says that the 'D' 'O' double 'G' has been released. DX is back to 2 I guess.

CoolUsername:
More creative shakeups at WWE

ValeeLove:
e go still fail. Storylines don't work. Wrestling companies need judges not story tellers.

ValeeLove:
e go still fail. Storylines don't work. Wrestling companies need judges not story tellers.

ValeeLove:
Reports coming in says that the 'D' 'O' double 'G' has been released. DX is back to 2 I guess.

samistry:
No half baked measures.
You can't present Moxley as a tough hardened martial artist, only for him to get choked out in jiu jutsu tournaments by randos. Go full brawl for all, no predetermined winners. Go full inokism(nevemind it almost killed NJPW)
Let the best wrestler or fighter win the belt.

samistry:
No half baked measures.
You can't present Moxley as a tough hardened martial artist, only for him to get choked out in jiu jutsu tournaments by randos. Go full brawl for all, no predetermined winners. Go full inokism(nevemind it almost killed NJPW)
Let the best wrestler or fighter win the belt.

CoolUsername:
This is obviously false

pu7pl3:
Who dash Dean Ambrose martial art??

ValeeLove:
it can work. Wrestling is a work, meaning you don't go out there and beat people for real. But halfway you're supposed to feel the effect. The judges are not judges that appear on TV To rate a match, they rate the matches after the matches are over by watching the tapes. They perform the job of the booker essentially to decide who goes over or not. The better performer (in athletism and in acting) gets rated higher; that way it feels like a sport while still being entertainment. This is how wrestling should be.

ValeeLove:
go watch him in Bloodsport.

samistry:
So a bunch of people determine who should win matches. How is it different from what we have? It's still scripted (fake) at the end of the day. Let them go out for real like MMA or amateur Olympic wresting.

ValeeLove:
yes it's fake. It should be. But it's more real than what we have now and it's the right balance for a sport-entertainment show. Because the issue now is that the gimmicks (thank God they're going out of use), storylines and choreography makes for there to be more entertainment than sport. Even worse, it changes; some matches don't have stories, some do; some wrestlers don't have gimmicks, some do, some matches are barely choreographed, some heavily; and the fans are made bear the weight alongside the confusion it beings varying from time to time, from company to company, from wrestler to wrestler. The resultant effect is a constant back and forth on a daily basis between promoter to promoter, promoter to fan and fan to fan. Let's not even talk about how the external onlookers mock the business and it's fans. We're defending the product everyday and every other day from the same arguments that never seem to stop. But there's money, unfortunately we can't say the same about the legitimacy of the business. There isn't one sport and different styles, there's one sport and only one style and that's what I have presented.

samistry:
I get where you're coming from but this proposal still leaves us with serious people engaging in simulated combat with a fixed winner.
Anything worked/pretend fight isn't going to get the acceptance of real combat.
Casuals will be like "why is this combatant not having cuts and bruises if the moves are real?"

It's not a sport until the moves are real and the winner isn't one determined by backstage forces. It can't work, not In this age of social media leaks and backstage scoops.

ValeeLove:
yes it's fake. It should be. But it's more real than what we have now and it's the right balance for a sport-entertainment show. Because the issue now is that the gimmicks (thank God they're going out of use), storylines and choreography makes for there to be more entertainment than sport. Even worse, it changes; some matches don't have stories, some do; some wrestlers don't have gimmicks, some do; some matches are barely choreographed, some heavily; and the fans are made bear the weight alongside the confusion it brings varying from time to time, from company to company, from wrestler to wrestler. The resultant effect is a constant back and forth on a daily basis between promoter to promoter, promoter to fan and fan to fan. Let's not even talk about how the external onlookers mock the business and it's fans. We're defending the product everyday and every other day from the same arguments that never seem to stop. But there's money, unfortunately we can't say the same about the legitimacy of the business. There isn't one sport and different styles, there's one sport and only one style and that's what I have presented.

ValeeLove:
no, it'll not be advertised as a sport, it'll be advertised exactly as what it (and Vince already solved that problem), Sport-entertainment. Simple. I used the word 'sport" vaguely to describe it but the actual term is sport-entertainment. It will have the necessary elements of sports as well as the necessary elements of entertainment (acting) to finally bring meaning and stability to this "circus show". We've refused to choose stability hence we're confused. This is just a rant on Nairaland, hopefully with more influence I could cause a discourse across board.

CoolUsername:
Who are the grown adults that are still mocking wrestling in 2026? Everybody already knows that everyone else knows it is scripted. If you are ashamed of wrestling, go and watch UFC. If not, stop hanging with people that are still stuck in 2003.
Wrestling does not have to change for this imaginary fanbases that would come if becomes more "realistic".

CoolUsername:
This will suck